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Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Isaiah 6:1-13

By Chuck SmithShall we turn now in our Bibles to Isaiah, chapter 6, as Isaiah records for us his commissioning by God for his ministry. Now you remember in chapter 1 that Isaiah tells us that his time of prophecy extended through the kingdom or through the kings of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah. As we pointed out, it is thought that he was put to death by the evil son of Hezekiah, Manasseh. But his call to his ministry as a prophet is given to us in chapter 6, and it so happened that it... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 6:1-13

The excellence of the prophet’s labours during the war with Pekah and Rezin, seems to be the cause why this vision occupies but a secondary place. God gave it to console the church on the death of so great and good a king as Uzziah. It shows his divine commission to be a prophet, and with the brightest seals of his mission. Moses produced his credentials in Egypt, and Paul in addressing his epistles to the gentiles. Isaiah 6:1 . I saw also, or I then saw the LORD. The Hebrew is Adonai, as... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Isaiah 6:1-13

Isaiah 6:1-13In the year that King Uzziah died I saw also the LordThe story of the prophet’s call--why inserted hereWhy the narrative of the prophet’s call was not, as in the cases of Jeremiah and Ezekiel, allowed to occupy the first place in the book, is a question which cannot be certainly answered.One conjecture is that chaps. 1-5 were placed first for the purpose of preparing the reader of the book for the severity of tone which marks the end of chap. 6, and of acquainting him with the... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Isaiah 6:9-13

Isaiah 6:9-13And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand notIsaiah: his heaviness and his consolation1.Isaiah summed up his whole future life in those two words, “Behold me; send me.” Then on his ardent soul was poured the heavy message, “Go, and thou shalt tell this people” (God speaks of them no more as His own), “Hear ye on, and understand not; and see ye on, and know not. Make thou dull the heart of this people, and its ears make thou heavy, and its eyes close... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Isaiah 6:10

Isaiah 6:10Make the heart of this people fatThe power of self-cursing“Make the heart of this people fat,” etc.By this it is not meant that Isaiah was to aim at and put forth what power he possessed to lead the people of Judah deeper and ever deeper into error and sire That was an errand on which God was morally incapable of sending him. His business was to teach them, not error, but truth; to set them an example not of rebellion, but obedience to the Divine win; to diminish and do away with... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Isaiah 6:11

Isaiah 6:11Then said I, Lord, how long?--The state of the ChurchI. NOTICE A FEW THINGS AFFECTING THE STATE OF THE CHURCH AND OF THE WORLD WHICH ARE CALCULATED TO EXCITE THE ASTONISHMENT AND GRIEF OF THE CHRISTIAN. 1. The little progress which Christianity has made after a lapse of eighteen hundred years. 2. The prevalence of irreligion in those parts of the world which are professedly Christian. 3. The low state of religion in the Church itself. 4. The obstacles which the Church presents to the... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Isaiah 6:10

Isa 6:10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed. Ver. 10. Make the heart of this people fat, ] sc., By preaching to them the Word of God, which, because they regard not, it shall become unto them a savour of death, as sweet ointments kill beetles, as a shrill voice hurteth weak ears, as lime is kindled by cold water cast upon it.... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Isaiah 6:11

Isa 6:11 Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate, Ver. 11. Then said I, Lord, how long? ] sc., Shall this sad stroke upon the souls of this poor people last? Is there no hope of an end? Hast thou utterly cast off Israel? See here the good affection of godly ministers towards even obdurate and obstinate sinners; how deeply and dearly they oft pity them and pray for them, as did... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Isaiah 6:10

the heart: Isaiah 29:10, Isaiah 63:17, Exodus 7:3, Exodus 10:27, Exodus 11:10, Exodus 14:17, Deuteronomy 2:30, Ezekiel 3:6-1 Kings :, 2 Corinthians 2:16 fat: Deuteronomy 32:15, Psalms 17:10 ears heavy: Jeremiah 6:10, Zechariah 7:11 lest: Jeremiah 5:21, John 3:19, John 3:20, Acts 3:19, Acts 28:27 convert: Isaiah 19:22, Matthew 13:15 Reciprocal: Genesis 48:10 - dim Exodus 4:21 - I will harden Exodus 10:20 - General Leviticus 3:3 - the fat Deuteronomy 28:28 - General Deuteronomy 29:4 - ... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Isaiah 6:11

Lord: Psalms 74:10, Psalms 90:13, Psalms 94:3 Until the: Isaiah 1:7, Isaiah 3:26, Isaiah 24:1-2 Kings : utterly desolate: Heb. desolate with desolation Reciprocal: Genesis 29:19 - General Leviticus 26:32 - And I Deuteronomy 4:26 - ye shall 2 Kings 24:2 - according 1 Chronicles 20:1 - wasted Psalms 69:25 - habitation Song of Solomon 5:7 - watchmen Isaiah 1:25 - purge Isaiah 5:6 - I will lay Isaiah 10:22 - the consumption Isaiah 17:9 - General Isaiah 24:3 - shall Isaiah 27:10 - the defenced... read more

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